30-acre Buckhead property to be preserved for new park
A 30-acre piece of property in Buckhead formerly owned by noted photographer and philanthropist Lucinda Bunnen will be transformed into a new City of Atlanta park. The Conservation Fund (TCF) purchased the property for $13.5 million in October. According to Urbanize Atlanta, the deal is the highest residential land sale in Atlanta in 2024 and […] The post 30-acre Buckhead property to be preserved for new park appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta.
A 30-acre piece of property in Buckhead formerly owned by noted photographer and philanthropist Lucinda Bunnen will be transformed into a new City of Atlanta park.
The Conservation Fund (TCF) purchased the property for $13.5 million in October. According to Urbanize Atlanta, the deal is the highest residential land sale in Atlanta in 2024 and the largest park acquisition TCF has made for Buckhead in more than two decades.
Larger than downtown’s Centennial Olympic Park and Woodruff Park combined, the property at 3910 Randall Mill Road lies just east of Interstate 75 and south of I-285.
Bonneau Ansley of Ansley Real Estate Christie’s International, who represented the Bunnen family in the sale, told Urbanize Atlanta the deal was “historic,” noting “there hasn’t been anything like this available in decades, and it’s not likely we’ll ever see this much land available [again] in this area.”
According to TCF, an additional $3.4 million in funding will be needed to create a permanent nature preserve. The organization is planning to work with city officials and other partners to get the funds.
Bunnen, who helped build the High Museum of Art photo collection and co-founded what is now the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, died in 2022 at age 92. Her Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired home on the Buckhead property was included in the sale, but what it will be used for is unknown.
Bunnen’s own photography – including famed Atlantans like Coretta Scott King and Ted Turner, street scenes, and nature – was collected in numerous books and frequently exhibited over the decades.
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